Firstly, domestic violence is one of the most prevalent factors in many countries that contribute towards suicide. Websters Dictionary defined suicide as the act of intentionally taking ones own life. With reference to the Guyana Chronicle Newspaper dated 28th of March, 207, a mother of three took her own life by consuming a poisonous substance. When the relatives of the victim were interviewed by reporters, it was revealed that the victim was constantly being physically and verbally abused by her husband. A survey in India done by the World Health Organization would have also revealed that many women in several villages would have attempt or commit suicide because they were constantly abuse by their spouse. Also, Balogun Osunbiyi, president and co-founder of the Guyana Psychological Association, and a government psychologist agrees with the assessment of the National Suicide Prevention Plan issued by the Ministry of Health, identifying domestic violence, pervasive stigma about mental illness, and access to lethal chemicals, alcohol misuse, poverty, family dysfunction and insufficient mental health resources as key factors in suicide. All in all, when researchers examine the causes of suicide, it has been revealed that domestic violence is one of the key factors that causes person to take their own life. Therefore, we can clearly understand the consequences of domestic violence. If domestic violence is a leading cause for the act of s
uicide, then why our folks continue to get involves in this devastated act regularly?
In addition, divorce is another severe consequence of domestic violence. According to Cambridge English Dictionary divorce is an official or legal process to end a marriage. On many instances reports are surfaced in newspaper, social media, Internet and other means of communication stating persons who would have ended their marriage after several years. For instance, statistician Rabindra Rooplall revealed that statistic would have shown that the number of divorce cases has climbed in 20 with 288 matters compared to 269 cases in 200. He also pointed out that cases tend to increase year after year. These persons do not really prefer to end their marriage. They end it because of factors they refuse to endure any longer. Reports coming out of Help and Shelter in 203 reveals that violence against women are the leading cause of divorce in Guyana. For many divorce solicitors, this therefore means that some of the clients are victims of domestic violence but may not openly speak about it. According to Refuge 207 statistics report, one in every four women in England and Wales experience domestic violence in their lifetime, where as for the men it is one in every six of them experience domestic violence in their lifetime which then reached the courts for resolution. So, with this evidence, one can be convinced that domestic violence is a key factor to divorce.